Meaning of minium | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Cinnabar, especially when used as a pigment; vermilion.
   historical, uncountable, usually
2. Red lead.
   uncountable, usually

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Examples

“The compounds formed by the combination of the peroxide of lead with the protoxide have received the general name of miniums, and are known in commerce as red lead.”

“[H]e was so overcome by suffering that his face, which had once been of oriental minium, now became like orpiment, and the hams of his lips turned into rancid lard.”

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